Books Quote by Peter Orner Download Open image “If a novel or a story works, you don't stop thinking about it; it doesn't truly end.” — Peter Orner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Ends Ifs Novel Stories Thinking
After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers. — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel. — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“If you're a writer, the problem is that, when you try to call a halt to thinking about your novel-in-progress, your imagination still keeps… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“The lake is always east. East is always the lake. Anywhere else he's ever been he never knows where he is.” — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us.” — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf Boyis palpable, and so… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I'm pretty tight - I rewrite, in some cases, 70 to 80 times before I show it to people. — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I feel like there are too many words in the world, and I think silence is so much more powerful than the glut of… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I usually have a location and then I put the character there. I love place names. I think I'm tricking myself by being so… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
People have to follow their own strangeness. The minute they start making their own vision of the world flattened out so everyone can read… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“Considering the multitude of things that happen in any one person’s life, it seems fairly unlikely that those little boys remembered the incident for… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“Chicago does not go to the world, the world comes to Chicago! Who needs New York? Who has taller buildings than our tall buildings?… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
